The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-07-08
The Ann Arhor Corr;er s,vs. al

IS nearly always 1dlT IN MS arguments,
will look up the facts, he will find
that the fees of foreign students al
ready make the professional depart
merits selfsupporting. Which de
partments contain at least four fifths
Of the foreign students. Now if you
go 10 work and tax the foreign stu.
dents IN these departments out of
proportion it will not only place adj
ditional taxes upon the State to main
tain the departments by reason OF
driving away all foreign students,
but make a small local college Of
what is now broad, noble University.
Harvard and Yale have free scholar-
ships for those not able to pay. The
U. of M. hasnothing of the kind,
and moderate fees is the only thing
that keeps il abreast of the tide. Did
The TINES thoroughly understand
the management of the University,
we feel sure it would commend and
not condemn it,
So far as we are concerned we are
determined to be always fair and
candid, but, at the same time out
spoken on all questions of public pol
icy. We believe in the University,
and had we been member of the
House, should have voted to pass the
bill over the veto, for the reason that
we believe every dollar Of the money
appropriated by the bill was neces
sity, if the great work undertaken by
the State at the University is to be
accomplished, and we believe it
should be. At the same time we do
not believe the bill was perfect.
Despite tie fact, which we fully
understand, set forth by the Courier
''that the professional departments
are self sustaining" the other fact
s,ill exists they are made SO not'alone
by the foreign students, but by the
fees charged to them and the resident
Students.
Our view of the question is that the
fees charged the foreign students
should be largely increased, while
from the sons and daughters of Mich
igan there should not be collected
single penny for any purpose, And
we have no doubt if this were the case
the number of Michigan students
would double if not thribble, in the
first year, and that the people Of
Michigan would most cheerfully pay
the necessary expenses of keeping up
the high character of the institution,
of which the editor OF the Courier is
not whit more proud than is the
editor Of THE TINES. There is 20
occasion to fear that with high fees
the number of foreign students will
not be as large as it will be practical
to provide for with the large increase
Of Michigan students, that would fol.
low making the institution free to
them. Suppose you double the fees
to foreign students-that would prac-
tically give the University as much
money in fees as collected now.
Why not do that, and allow, as was
originally intended by the large con-
gressional donation-the freedom of
the school TO the children of Michi-
gan. That is what the friends of
universal education demand, and with
nothing less than that will they be
content; nor will the people consent
to see the children of Michigan ex-
Guided, as thousands of them are to.
day, from the advantages of the high
culture afforded by the University,
and which they are taxed to provide,
for the reason that parties that have
no claim on the generosity of the
people OF Michigan are educated on
substantially the same basis as are
the children of the State. If the
editor of the Courier had been, as
the editor CT THE TINES has been,
where the expression of the people on
this question, decided and emphatic,
as was exhibited by the vote of the
House sustaining the veto, was daily,
tor weeks, being spread on the record
and expressed in letters and kilograms
by the thousand, he would understand
that the people are aroused on this
question and that nothing short of
change of policy on the part of the
Regents, as regards the question of
fees to both Michigan and foreign